Full day tutorial on Quantum models of cognition and decision

Jerome Busemeyer, Indiana University

Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology

Taiki Takahashi, Hokkaido University Japan

Jennifer Trueblood, Indiana University

Abstract

This full day tutorial is an exposition of a rapidly growing new
alternative approach to building computational models of cognition and decision
based on quantum theory. Quantum theory provides a fundamentally different
approach to logic, reasoning, probabilistic inference, and dynamical systems. For
example, quantum logic does not follow the distributive axiom of Boolean logic;
quantum probabilities do not obey the disjunctive axiom of Kolmogorov
probability; quantum reasoning does not obey the principle of monotonic
reasoning. It turns out that humans do not obey these restrictions either, which
is why we consider a quantum approach. This tutorial will provide an exposition
of the basic assumptions of classic versus quantum information processing
theories. These basic assumptions will be examined, side by side, in a parallel
and elementary manner.